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There was, therefore, nothing to flatter my ambition in removing me from thence, but giving me the title which had been many years in my family, and which reverted to the Crown about a year ago, by the death of the last of the elder house.

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I own to you that I felt more indignation than ever in my life I had done." (Letter to the Earl of Strafford, July 23, 1712).

[T.S.]] There was, however, one advantage which Her Majesty resolved to make by this defection of her foreigners.